Forty years ago, Rod Stewart released The Killg of Geie, a groundbreakg sgle about the murr of a gay man – now tragilly relevant aga the light of events Orlando
Contents:
- ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'
- ROD STEWART: STOMACH PUMP AFTER GAY ENUNTER NEVER HAPPENED
- WHY ROD STEWART'S GAY BALLAD 'GEIE' WAS AHEAD OF S TIME
ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'
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Its subject uldn’t be more horribly relevant, given this past weekend’s massacre years ago this Saturday (18 June), Stewart released The Killg of Geie Parts I and II, the first major pop song to tell the tale of a gay man who died, part, bee of his sexual om solely a sad tale, Geie also ranked as the first chart h to prent a gay man wh not only empathy but admiratn.
ROD STEWART: STOMACH PUMP AFTER GAY ENUNTER NEVER HAPPENED
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Cocintally, the song’s 40th anniversary arriv durg gay pri month. A few h songs addrsg gay subjects had appeared before Stewart’s track.
WHY ROD STEWART'S GAY BALLAD 'GEIE' WAS AHEAD OF S TIME
Before Geie, however, there had never been an earnt song portrayg the hardship and joy of a gay person’s life for a mass dience. Stewart says that 1976, he didn’t tend to wre a gay story per se.
“If someone said to me, ‘S down and wre a song about a gay man, ’ would have ightened the daylights out of me, ” he tells the Guardian.